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Yes I stand corrected, I only discovered this fact when I visited a '3' shop. The 3GB eBay/Amazon sims seem the best bet

May I support this suggestion too? I am hoping to retire soon but would like to keep my hand in having done IT support for many a year. TheITboat.co.uk

IIRC you can adjust the pressure on these units by use of the (undocumented?) adjuster screw in the middle of the pump assembly (pipework end). Mine was set too high from new and pushed water out of the PRV on the calorifier.

Probably, omni directional antennas tend to have low output. Not sure which antenna you have.

Solvol Autosol to give it it's Sunday name and yep it's good stuff and has been around since Adam was a lad.

I use a dongle and external antenna (crc9) and agree with the fragility of the connector. The outer part of the plug tends to splay out with bending stress, you can easily squeeze them back in with fingers/needle pliers. I now use an elastic band wrapped around the cable and dongle body to hold the cable in, it is way more effective than it is elegant! For heavy users "3" now have a monthly contract (30 day notice) tariff that has some minutes & texts but most importantly unlimited data for just under £13/m

My experience of needing a vet whilst on holiday couldn't be more different, my own home vet located a local practice for me, and faxed over all the details of my dogs current treatment all within 12 hours. A far cry from when my daughter needed some treatment this year and a GP's practice refused to see her as she wasn't registered, instead referring her to a pharmacist.

Will be going there for the first time on Friday, but approaching from t'other side (Lemonroyd)

The problem for occasional river users is where to keep all the kit when it's not needed. As regards the weight whilst I fully agree with all that has been said regarding minimum sizes etc. its no use whatsoever if you can't deploy it over the side when needed. I have a 20Kg Danforth with 5m chain and 30m warp for my 57' 16T narrowboat which is quite heavy enough for me.

Sounds like a perfectly serviceable 1mv/A shunt to me. Despite protestations something has had it's earthy side moved from the true 'hull' ground to the battery -ve terminal.thus bypassing the shunt. Check the voltage across the shunt on a low load to check that the measuring device isn't ignoring low inputs. Just a thought... you replaced the batteries (plural) are ALL the negatives EXACTLY as they were before

but as the array I've made is so easily maneuverable it could be rigged to a motor operated from inside the boat. Wouldn't the power taken by the motor negate the advantage of moving it?

I experimented at length on a test bench with some sulphated batteries (caused by inadequate charging), alternately running charge/desulphation and discharge tests. My conclusion with the unit I had was that it was smoke and mirrors. The batteries subsequently responded better to being sat on a correctly rated/configured fours stage charger for a few MONTHS running a 15.5v equalisation cycle periodically than any desulphation trickery, and yes they do use high frequency narrow current pulses to attempt the magic.

Previous posters point to the fact that it is very hard (impossible?) to get a battery anywhere close to 100% SOC in 24hrs. Bulk charging from a high current source will take you to about 80% from there on it's an ever reducing return, IMHO you'de be lucky to get them up to 90% even given ideal charging conditions in any 24 hour period, the chemistry of the battery simply takes a long time for the charge to 'soak' deep into the plates (also remember you're not supposed to discharge below 50% so that leaves you 30% usable capacity). As regards topping them up during the day with solar, this will only work if your power demand is less than the average output from the solar array, (e.g. consumption 4A, array output 5A will give a nett charge of 1A) AFAIK solar panels are pushed to give more than a few amps in winter and a modest power demand will wipe out any solar power leaving a nett discharge on the battery. As regards monitoring I have tried the Smartguage but have replaced it with the NASA BM2 which I find better as it has an amperehour counter which helps when judging how much juice you have used up/put back.

I too have had issues with this antenna where it works fine one minute and then nothing, interestingly this extended to the FM output as well as the UHF (TV) output. My current theory is that it is the amplifier ceasing to, well... amplify. I have a spare one (had to buy a new antenna - wished I had known it was a warranty issue and saved meself £80) which I intend to install imminently and test over the coming weeks; I will post my findings in due course. One thing to note is that with DTV there is no 'snow' like old school analogue so it can be difficult to determine signal strength and quality, however most DTV's will have some indication of these parameters on the 'info' screen for a given channel. As these antennas are omnidirectional multipath reception (ghosting in old terms) can cause the signal quality to be low even though the strength is high. I have wondered if selective screening of one side of the antenna with aluminium foil might help reduce multipath.

Three, as, ironically, in 'TLA' If I search more than once in a minute I trigger it, so you search for something, realise you were being stupid and try again to be told to wait 60 secs.

Thanks, I'll go try and find them...

I was hoping to take my NB (the black 58 footer with no name) out or Kingfisher's boatyard back to Willington on Saturday last . Give me the nod if the river goes down by Friday and I'll try again! Where did you get these graphs please?

Can we lose the search 'flood control'? or at least tone it down a bit? Or rename it 'slight trickle' control?

Thank you you just saved me a fortune! Another good site: http://www.theanchorstore.co.uk

Precisely so. Essentially you are creating your own 'earth' environment isolated from the rest of the world, just as in a house all metallic items should be bonded together and to the neutral point creating a Protective Multiple Earthing (PME) situation. Modern homes do not have a earth provided by the incoming supply cable, rather the neutral is bonded to the PME point in the home, since neutral is effectively at earth potential it amounts to the same. In the unlikely event of the supply being reversed (yes I have witnessed this!) the PME system protects the householder as everything is at 230v so there is no 'real' earth available; though one would hope something would trip in this scenario! G&F, did you moor at Mercia earlier in the year? If so I believe we were briefly near neighbours.

Interested in all your comments, we are currently in Mercia but live in Methley 5 mins from Lemonroyd. Wondering about moving the boat a bit nearer.